Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.